 And it looks like I am live. Let me double-check see what it says on there. I Did not even tweet this out. I didn't pre-plan very well today I mean I wanted to the goal was really to do that But boy for those of you that follow my channel you may have noticed the lack of Updated videos for a few days like the last one I did was the s1 video. I think I mean I still did the video with Jay that has a lot less post-production work because we just publish it but nonetheless because There is so many things going on let me turn all the notices off my phone, so I sure they're important, but not right now all right The new studio build has been occupying a lot of my time. It is so close to being done But before we dive into that that'll be my errata towards the end where I babble on about things I wanted to start with the Unify stuff and I wanted to make a video on this I said, you know let's talk about it my live shame and rant about it and get people's opinions a little bit I like to put this at the beginning because this is the title of this particular vlog We're gonna talk about some The usage of unify in your business and then we're going to do some you know while I'm at it I'll do some Q&A on here about this topic So I will be repeating myself a lot because someone will join 20 minutes in and said hey Did I miss the unify stuff? And I'm sure I don't have 20 minutes of unified content to babble on about So let's start with the question comes up all the time and it starts out almost always with what's a good alternative to? Maraki and I'm not here to pick on Maraki I'm pointing it out as a popular post inside of different forums inside of different business owner group forums For the IT MSP business owner space and the reason they started Maraki's because the licensing fees are so high So it's just in there a big big company and this is that that I think they're bad necessarily But you end up with people going hey, I kind of pay a lot for this. What about different alternatives now? What you get when you get something Maraki is of course not just licensed fees That's the part you can easily dog on but you're gonna get a level of support that comes with it This actually goes for any of these commercial companies that have a bigger support channel now Here comes unify with all of their stuff And these are just some random assortment of switches that are within grasp of me and unify is obviously quite Disruptive in the market if you will I that is a Overused buzzword calling themselves market disruptors, but then again last time I checked I think they're in like the 17 billion range for their market cap So they they made a difference in the networking gear market They're a popular topic because they don't have licensing fees they allow you to sell posts to controller those two things make them kind of a standout in the network business at all and Then there is the splitting hairs debate that a bunch of people have and this is where those Forum posts just go off the rails of people arguing Whether or not it's actually a good solution whether or not it's a professional solution and then someone will throw in there But the warranty so much better on a commercial product from Maraki versus and I'm gonna guess you can call them somewhat You know commercial products from unify now any of the questions I have about what gear you should use is always going to start with What are the use cases? What are the features you need to have because just comparing features of two different pieces of equipment? Not relevant. What are the features you need for your project? That's the first question and if the Unify platform or insert any platform won't have the features that work for your project Then you just can't use that product unless you're willing to change the feature sets you have Required moving on to the next question when it comes to support. Yes. Absolutely. My understanding is and I've never even bothered contacting them but my understanding is from the chatter of the internet that the Unify support is not great that being said there's also a bias you're gonna have and it's the signal-to-noise ratio and One of the problems when you sell a product that anyone can buy is anyone can buy it and then complain about it online So you have a broad market product. You have a broad market of potential complaints on a Product so you can end up with this bias even if there is a legitimate problem with other brands The brand required if the brand's bar for entry was requires a partner agreement sign up Resell agreement, etc paperwork business owner can't be bought by normal consumers you're just gonna find less people online complaining about it because There's a reseller program that makes it more difficult. Also, it kind of falls on deaf ears So it's a like there's not I mean don't get me wrong There are places and groups and forums to complain about other gear But none are near the scale and scope of the ubiquity forums or the subreddits for ubiquity These are very, you know large forums where you can get a perception that there's a problem with a product And that's where another option comes in you can take the time to learn the product or there's people like myself Maybe I'm a little biased I think we're pretty good at ubiquity support and it's a niche we get into so you save down the product and This is where it starts breaking down to a more business decision for how you want to do this So ubiquity is going to sell you this product for cheap but you're gonna pay for it with your time and Then you're gonna have Cisco or Maraki insert name of whatever other company that has a support plan with it And they're gonna take care of the setup and support But then they're gonna charge you ongoing fees But those ongoing fees do come with the fact that you can pick up the phone and usually talk to someone Depending on your contract and support levels not a Maraki user So I don't really know all the details of their program But they they're one of the big guys in the market and player in this space so worth mentioning them now My belief and why we got into unify was well, I can take my knowledge We have collectively here at Lawrence systems in our background and network engineering and say this looks like a good product We can take the time to understand and that was many many years ago. Maybe around 2013 or 14 I can't remember exactly when we started using the product spent a long time and come here in 2022 have an entire Series of YouTube videos all about the ubiquity equipment and how it works We're extremely familiar with it. So we don't even think about calling their support. It's not even anything that Comes up in our thought process when we're dealing with ubiquity things we lab things out We test them we do videos on it then people contact us We work with a ton of other IT businesses and IT business owners and managed service riders The MSP space and help them set it up and to them It's a nice one-time fee to pay to have us design implement set up and hand over control to them for hosting The long-term on that depending on the number of changes or whether or not they need that many changes Most of time is kind of a set it and forget it Hey set these 10 access points up for us help us spec out this client build it set it up and done Then you can charge you as in the IT business owner can charge whatever you want and mark up our knowledge that we You bought from us you can do what you want with it And it has a good long-term play on it and when it comes to like the warranties and hot spares It's what some of the problems with some of the Cisco equipment is it's gonna be a lot more expensive now I think Cisco makes a very reliable product, but it is nice to be able to have one a product goes wrong a Next-day error or business agreement replacement so it's replaced within x number of hours But when unified being so cheap, I'm like buy two buy an extra You know, we've done this before when we've deployed like 300 access points at a client They have a few spares in the back room because it's the internal IT team puts in there They have all the same switches Universally at all the different points where all the switches are to support those 300 plus access points They just bought an extra switch to keep it in the back room. It's all the switches are the same even ones that are now a little overkill, but that type of Offering of support actually works out really well if you're willing to put the time into it And I'm not trying to really influence people's minds. I don't get any commission So to speak if you buy you big booty you're buying Maraki. That's not where I'm going I just like to throw data points out there because people always ask are what your thoughts on using this and these are my thoughts on Using this this is a discussion that comes up a lot. That's why I titled it because it's almost I almost cited it like Maraki alternate. What's the best Maraki alternative because almost immediately people post That unify is in it's because of the niche they're in now I will also mention there's that free cloud thing that people really love to talk about this is where I Think ubiquity allowing you to host a controller put you in a better position than a lot of these other cloud providers The problem is with the free cloud is someone's got to pay the cloud bill Open mesh is a really easy example of that They were a company that promised you a free cloud and we looked at open mesh Because they were you know early days open messaging ubiquity were kind of both these newer products that look kind of interesting to start dating into But it turns out I was my immediate assumption was open mesh is offering a free cloud I don't know someone's got to pay the bill on that I don't like the fact that I won't be able to host this and then They came around you like oh no no open mesh was like free cloud forever And I'm like no someone pays the bill forever And I like to think you're gonna pay the bill forever But yeah forever's a long time turns out data about them when data bought them no more free cloud Buy our services blah blah blah and like all right free cloud in a way So being able to host the controller made a whole lot more sense the other thing interesting about the way Unified works and it's not just a host a controller. It's a multi-tenant poster controller So we have a controller running many many clients on it That's not just a cool feature that I can host the controller I can host it here have my clients elsewhere and have all their data So I can easily manage see it have visibility into the entire network and I get that software without a license That's actually pretty crazy and from a ubiquity standpoint I think it's pretty smart because if they were to try to have these Millions of endpoints hosted it through a series of clouds In Riley Chase has talked openly about this about just how big his server bill is for what he does So he talks about the revenue he brings in for hostify but the other side of that is a lot of that revenue goes back out and Vulture has sent him like a little thing for being one of their larger people in their data centers Because that has a cost to it. That's that whole backend cost So when you take that cost and distribute it like unified it gone Hey, if we give them the controller, they'll put it in their clouds and they did so you end up with this very different dynamic I think it's really smart on unifies part to do all of this It's really hard for someone to try to come up with a competitive space without going head You can't really go ahead to have a ubiquity unless you're willing to do exactly what they did at the minimum It's just it's a really interesting Market that they've carved out for themselves doing this now then the next question Of course comes up like who else is doing it and the only other company that's kind of doing it but I lack the confidence in her product because all they did was copy and That's something they do well is TP link the problem is TP link copied but had confusing documentation and Just wasn't it didn't feel polished also if the only thing you do is copy someone with no improvement no Advantage other than a 10% price reduction in your hardware You didn't really sell anyone on it You didn't really give us confidence and also the multi-tenancy and things like that was way more confusing to set up inside the TP link So a you have kind of some of those issues related to it and I'm a little fuzzy on how fast I'm not calling them out because I don't know for sure. I only hear people and chatter I didn't really dig into this. I was unclear on How fast trend net Updated log for J. Ubiquity was on it like immediately and that's huge because that was a vulnerability we know and ever seen coming and The fact that Ubiquity was extremely on top of it made me happy the fact that other companies were not is obviously where a Risk factor comes in because if Ubiquity did not have those updates The only other alternative is to shut off Ubiquity and not publicly have anything Transporting across the internet related to it until we fully understood it the fact that they very much jumped on top of it Gave an option and some confidence that hey, they're on top of security So this is this is all these factors that have to go into Whether or not you're looking at like do you want to use this in your product line? Also, by the way, we had to actively maintain ourselves and be aware of things So there's a level of responsibility on the managers riders and IT people who are running this equipment that it becomes one more thing That you do have to maintain which hey maintaining these things comes what they cost there is an expense with maintaining things But oh those are kind of my riff on it I wanted to throw out here for the crowd and get this out of the way And just add it to a data point for those of you that are thinking you know the About using it as equipment, you know Whatever my thoughts on it and what should we do with it? Should it be used in MST IP space? Why should or shouldn't you and that's just where it is a better discussion now popular alternatives I got a mint ruba pretty popular company. I've done some of Ruba stuff and Yeah, the Ruba things are pretty Overall not bad their cloud is just ah really What's the word I'm looking for anemic just it lacks a lot of deep features But they do offer local interfaces on a lot of the devices So if you have advanced use cases, but then they kind of defeats having a cloud Option to monitor all of it and then it's course the a ruba cloud not the self-hosted cloud Then a lot of people asked me about a zike cell No, no, it's like cells had so many back doors and I don't know why anyone would want to use a zike cell stuff That company's not not been a good security company So that's kind of my rant for rant getting it off my chest getting off my soapbox It funds, you know talking about ubiquity and things like that I'm gonna go through stuff. I got people saying hello from all over the place Greetings from York in the UK Awesome, I think I've seen you comment before Simon so welcome Lots of hello. Hello. Hello's Hello from new market New England or England not New England Cisco license is expensive. No say it isn't so. Ah Yeah, Cisco license is not only expensive confusing I Gotta figure out if I can have I want my friend on here sometime to talk he's got to be anonymous on here Because where he works is a very large company that signs multi-million dollar contract with Cisco and the To the shenanigans he showed me in some emails of arguing with Cisco trying to redefine the word perpetual Cisco found a new definition for perpetual license that apparently isn't they redefined the word perpetual They're like, no, we're pretty sure what you said we had a perpetual license on this That means we have a continued license and they're like, yeah But we don't sell a perpetual license anymore and my friends like but you sold us one. Here's the contract So this renewal Implies it's not perpetual. Well, they said well, this is a new license this the silliness of dealing with these Cisco people and what they can try to slip in there Yeah, Aruba instant on that's like I said a pretty popular Alternative if you were to pick an alternative, I don't think Aruba is a terrible company to go with my friend I have more than one friend that uses Aruba as like they're dedicated. We love Aruba for Access points and firewalls or not access points and switches. I don't I think they use 40 48 for firewalls their preference. I'm not a 48 fan, but Whatever some people are Yeah, neck gear used to have I think they were trying to go the self-housed route, but that's all gone. I They it was confusing looking through their stuff They had at the time neck gear reached out to me and asking if I do videos I tried just reading on it. I replied I said you have a lot of broken 404s and sent them some links And they and I think they said well, we're trying to push our cloud thing with the subscriptions I'm like, oh, no, I'm not even I'm not even interested in that. So Any ideas on syncing on Synology, I did look a syncing of drop support I don't know. I don't use syncing on Synology. So I have no idea Hey, good to see Simon is a regular. Okay, so I've seen you before we have seen you before Ooh Norway, Netherlands Neat, I like Sweden. I like all these places actually I like the EHLO from Latvia The old mail server things I should I should start out everything with that. So Yeah, cadmium makes some nice stuff to can be I'm I say there I want to say their name because I keep thinking of nickel cad cadium cadium nickel nickel cadmium batteries. Anyways Can be a networks Makes really they're popular in a whisk market. They make some really solid site to site stuff. Uh, you know cadmium networks is good Germany yes So, uh, I've been watching that German show dark But I can't I can't speak German. So you have to use the English subtitles. So I will I have the English dub over things like that But Germany's cool. My daughter speaks some German She took an interest in the language and then she taught me a little bit The German language is interesting because it's like this They just put things together and make a bigger word like let's just describe this by setting all these Things into one word So it's kind of the German language is interesting How do you stack unified switches like they uh, like extreme network such uh, you don't stack them There's no stacking in unified switches So they they don't support like you're And I get The desire to stack them for management But you don't need to stack them for management because their ui manages it So you don't have to stack them for management. So the ui to me I mean I like I used to deal with man. I think it was samsung I won't I'm trying to remember the first stack switches I work with and yes oddly I think samsung was in the switching market and this goes back to 1999 And it was a management thing to be able to stack the switches like that and have get things working. So It was easier to deal easier to manage it so Yeah, franken words for the win that's that that's a good way I would you know if i'm an english speaker Learning some of the german is like that. We just are going to Put the word together and Describe it like this. So Uh, I hope ubiquity would I have stackable. So no they don't have I don't know of any of the switches that are stackable. So but to me I mean The uh stackable nature of them is cool if you need that single pane of management But then you get that with the unified software kind of meaning I don't need to stack the switch Uh, so I don't really I guess I don't understand the use case as well under ubiquity for stacking them Datto switches or voice switches for samsung Oh, they were um data switches for samsung. Uh, they were really old. I mean That I'd have to dig I I want to go through some time because I have it. Let me think here Inside this folder is um, I actually keep things like, uh, this is All's in here. Hold on. This is actually my old employer from When would it let me read the date on my offer lever May 11th 1999 so You know, let's pull it up. I pull out the person's there but This is how long I've been working at this place there. Well, I used to work. That's how I I'm A little bit of a data hoarder to some extent But isn't why I brought it up to show you that I still have my offer letter from uh, why I started working there I have all my documents from when I left That I had because the company tanked and I had a backup of all my folders. This includes all my emails from 1999 until Um, the data backup occurred in 2004. So I gotta actually pop a dvd player in here But I'm curious I want to go through all my old documents and notes I had because I was a big note taker back then of all the different equipment I used to use Back then and it's all I've diagrammed they're all in vizio and I'm pretty sure I can pull them out But um, that was a big early vizio user. So I had diagrams of all the network and the map I worked in enterprise it all the way back then so Um, then we kind of fun to dig out all the names of all the equipment. I did nortel administration I had um a really cool dos based phone server Which by the way, I think Is still loaded on this So Yeah This this was I converted the old ide drive to this and this is 256 um Meg flash controller powered off of a floppy connector for those of you wondering Yeah, old stuff. I still have some of this. I ran I I don't keep many things but this was small so I kept it But it might be fun to go through and do a uh old stuff so yes um Oh, this is kind of cool Looking forward to the business channel. Yes, there's been some really good progress on that I'm I'm doing uh the business channel. We got some logos drawn up. That's gonna be I I haven't launched it. I created but didn't launch it because I wanted to put a lot more into it and I needed some friends to help so, uh Yeah, there's new logo design and everything. It's it's got there's some there's a lot happening on it It'll be announced pretty soon. Uh I don't have I mean It's probably a week away. Maybe so it'll be soon Are you running 25 gig l lcp server? I'm happy with the performance over over the months. Um With one of our clients that will if you're if you're referring to the project we did. Yes, they're still happy That's the petabyte server had 25 gig connections in there. Um for us We just have 10 gig connections here in our office I mean we had some 25 gig stuff that we set up But ultimately what's in my production equipment not my lab my production equipment is still 10 gig Because we our data needs here at the office are minimal. So we don't really have, um We don't have any 25 gig stuff in our any of our production servers right now Just our just my just my lab for playing But oh we had a fun one today. Um How I can't remember exactly how many terabytes of data it was but uh, we we were building a server We will help this company. We're doing all the consulting work in design I don't I don't know if they watched the live change or not, but hey if you are, um They know us from youtube and uh, we were so impressed. We did replication between their pair of Uh ix system servers with 100 gig Bonded interconnect. So the 100 gig network. Let me just say replication Was amazing watching 100 gig network get saturated with really high speed drives to and fro Um was like we're like, oh wait. It says running. It says it's oh, I must have checked the box wrong It can't have run that fast. Oh it did it ran that fast and it was like that's beautiful. Um doing replication over um Doing replication over a 100 gig network with uh flash arrays and fast drives. It's just a beautiful thing It is this great Key voice was that the old DOS name? Hmm. I can't remember the name of it I'm gonna look it up if I find it. It might have been was key voice what worked with nortel? I guess would be the question so Would have been a uh, it might have been key voice No, that's a different server board. So I don't I don't think it was key voice It was a DOS box that integrated with a whole bunch of cards in it for voice cards with our uh Or what do you call it our nortel system? So it was it was a pretty slick setup Oh, yes, smash the like button 33 likes Yeah eight nimble all flash storage array with 100 gig connections Uh nimble isn't it the one owned by hp now? Yeah, I think nimble is now an hp company. I could be wrong. Um, but the Now they cover the unified stuff and throw a few network questions I do I'm gonna give it about 15 more minutes before I bounce out of here, but let's talk about a couple things and uh Hold on how far can we go? All right, share my screen share screen chrome tab That is what my studio looks like now. It is way further than it was before so This is the um Where the studio status is right now with the my desk has been built the Uh some of the floors are in the two tiles that are missing at the top here Will be here soon the ceiling is so black that my phone goes crazy trying to lighten it because it's like vantablack So this is but this is what I've been busy doing um, that's kind of kept me from uh doing other videos is all and it's not just this is I have an entire project I was doing some more measurements Uh for shelving that's going in There's so many things lots of measurements photos and uh, oh I figure out what lights I want to put some background. So Yeah, it's gonna be There's just there's just a lot. Yeah I went with uh A building it myself. This is like the butcher block stuff you can get butcher block countertop from Ikea And if you can't tell tom was an ad Ikea Me taking pictures and of course they got the hand thing into Ikea So my wife's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, oh, I need I need a selfie. That's So this is what happens when tom goes to Ikea But Ikea's got a gaming setups or something now too So there's that Ikea's got like a whole gaming display They partnered with uh, I think asus republican gamers. I was looking at other stuff there So I got to go back to get another one there. So Yeah, uh, you're gonna put your old networking devices at the background. That's the part I'm struggling with right now I don't know um, I need to figure out what I want to do for a background and I'm not really decided on that just yet Because I I I don't know I feel like I'm trying to do something unique and uh, I'm overthinking a hell out of that So what's going to be my background is a complete mystery. I I can almost guarantee it's going to be gray for a little while Because I'm being indecisive on what goes behind me. I know all the other stuff because it's already in front of me It's now figuring out what goes behind me is is so Struggling right now. I don't know yet because I actually have some friends who've got things like all their old equipment Or someone in my friends is a collector. So he's got a whole wall of uh Old PCs Commodore 64 is all restored and he mounts them all. Um, so I'm Yeah, I I've actually thought not just going green screen just paint the wall green It can be whatever I want whenever I want. Uh, but I do have a green screen. It goes behind me as well There's there actually is a green screen. That's um part of my office space as well So that's that does go up behind me. I actually have one from It's behind me now who makes it I Elgato There's an Elgato green screen behind me right now. So Could rule if you could network if if your network is an open closet Yeah, there's There's a lot. So, um, I guess I'm still uh, yeah Oh, uh, Cody says he's got the uh He's got the Elgato as well. Yeah, it works. Nice. It's got the cool little scissors on it for going up and down There'll be a studio tour once I'm done. But that's what I'm doing as soon as I leave here Um, I did a bunch of functional business things today. I didn't have any time to make videos And then I moved to there The ninja rmm stuff has been You know a lot. So I've been I actually got to work with uh, I'll probably be Diving deeper into some of the ninja stuff and I might do some more videos on it I'll be talking with them. I actually talked about their ui designers I know some of the people there there's There's some behind-the-scenes stuff a little bit where I'm interacting with uh, ninja And you know, we found certain things we didn't like about the way some of their product stuff worked but the cool thing is They're really working on it Like we just didn't like the way certain amounts of data is presented But we talked to them and they're really working hard to fix it And uh, so that's been exciting working with them But of course doing all that means tom wasn't making videos But the good news what comes out of that in the longer term Is a better video especially because today the other people I talked with today was someone from zavix So I I I really want to do since zavix looks so much nicer some new zavix videos I get caught up sometimes if you ever look at the video postings You'll see like a drop off or tom doesn't post videos It's usually because i'm deep diving into a few topics Or making some big changes. So How is the true nas scale testing going? Ah poorly I'm going to Do true nas scale testing Much more as soon as i'm in my new studio because i'm going to build my new studio a true for the system using for all my videos Because I i'm actually leaving some of the servers here And i'm going to be replicating From my house for my new studio is the data back over here So i'm going to leave the tried and true stable true nas core servers here And then at home i'm just going to run true nas scale Because no one cares what I reboot things at home except for me So I can if I have an update or anything like that I don't have to do it like outside of any production hours here So i'm not too worried about it. I'm going to probably get a lot more scale testing done there. So Uh, do you deal with your isp modem double-naded? Uh mind's not. Um, it sucks. There's some like an example would be my where my dad lives There's no such thing as not having double nat The providers in rural michigan. My dad lives in the middle of nowhere In some places your only internet option is going to be double-naded and that's it So, um, you deal with it. If you got it, there's only so much you can do If it is it is uh in cg nat is popular for some of these whists So it but it is what it is. Um, I don't I don't have a solution for it It just means you probably aren't hosting anything In that scenario, you know, I know I know a lot of people that live with it It is I don't really have a better answer for it. Um move funny thing is With my some of my relatives and I have a cousin who's um that they make their living on youtube as well One of the thing that determines where she has looked at to live has to do with where there's enough internet for her to upload videos on a regular basis because it's one of those things like this is It is a real concern and as you move out to certain rural communities even here in michigan The front of the order and reaches of michigan are very disconnected technology wise like there's just not the ability to Have good internet It's it was a factor when I was when we were shopping for my house in 2020 One of the factors came in because I looked at some places that were a little further outside of town But the internet was um if the internet was too bad there It's like no, I can't live here because I can't ever move my studio at home if I don't have good internet. So Yep It's important, uh Just so you know ninja, uh ninja was well aware of your channel just asked me if I Came because of your video software is where they said yes Yes, um that they uh If we go over to which I didn't even log in linkedin today By the way, I'm on linkedin. I I thought a few people connected me there. Um Or was it I think I can share it, uh Or can I can I even see it? Anyways, uh something like 40 people 50 people Actually went and reshared post an activity Post I've been so busy. I didn't even post all my socials Where is the working you see the number of shared linkedin is More difficult, uh, I I have a ton of people all working at ninja one who shared my video on linkedin So that's kind of what I was getting at. So yeah, that's kind of cool. They've been super, uh, helpful and nice to work with And not just because of the videos, um There I one of the reasons we switched to them was you thought they were a good company All right, uh a few more minutes and I will share something completely off topic Um, but it just made me giggle today. Maybe some of you will laugh with me or just not completely understand the joke But this made me laugh today because I was you know, letting my playlist roll and So I started hearing like hey full tank unleaded and I'm like wow like unleaded gas is an old thing They got rid of years ago here in america um You know buying it at the pump and then to go all the way further I'm driving an electric car here and you know, I get a full tank unleaded I'm like there's got to be a new version of this song or like I got a full charge It doesn't have the same ring But it just I kept trying to play on words with that. It kept making me chuckle Uh for things like that, but yeah, this is My test that I was stopped. I bcc stopped sign I was stopped when I took the picture for those of you go But tom you took a picture or you touched your phone while you're in the car. I know Uh So such is life Six more minutes six more minutes get your questions in over the next six minutes for time just babbles on about things The uh, oh I can share to the The other things that are happening. Let me see what else can I show? Let's see tesla tesla. Yes This is the other side of my studio and I'll give a tour of all of this. Um When it's finished, this is the other side of the studio. This isn't my studio space This is a extra living space in my basement for those of you that follow me on like facebook or other socials I posted some of this but these are um, some of the other photos of The space that we're building so it's not just i'm working on one thing I'm working on two things as I figured if i'm going to remodel my basement I'm going to also at the same time Make a living space down there, uh and make a uh Space down there so I can do my studio as well So that's all the fun stuff that I've been working on. It's it takes up so much time to get all this stuff done I think it's gonna go faster, but then it's not also um Who knows what that is So I I was actually quite amused by this when I got this. Um, it's for my snowblower and I'm just like Whoever built the battery packs for this thing was a game designer So I was like these look like pick up power packs for a game. I was like these are so cool looking Uh, let's see Oh, you like they're great. I I gotta admit. This is the ego battery packs and uh I have I was super impressed with how good the snowblower works. So yeah, I uh Mower edger everything man. I I I heard good things about it. It's my first ego stuff and I was like wow Yeah, it's like xbox themed. I mean look at this thing. It's like cool looking And then the battery packs and stuff. I'm like someone like They got these little lights in them and stuff. That's just cool That's just novel stuff they got there. Oh someone will be interested to see this This is the mess that's not finished yet. So The rack is coming together. This is the opposite. This is the back of the studio wall right here His mother was a snowblower. Yes Ah Little by little All this mess is coming together. I gotta clean it up still. There's a service loops down here that are big That's why excuse the mess Excuse the mess that's over there Yeah, when i'm done, there's gonna be a lot more there's um, because everything's going in there Everything's gonna be in there What else what else what else oh someone asked about hot sauces These are pretty good their cayenne pepper cayenne pepper and habaneros peanuts so That's my recommendation for hot sauce blue diamond almonds you can find the most most probably anywhere in blue diamonds a popular brand so I've never used gravity zone. I use s1. So I've never tried it. I have no opinion on it Nice rack. Yeah, it's actually the same. I got this rack behind me and the one at my house They're one, you know, same type same type of rack But I haven't used gravity zone and I haven't used crotch strike. So I don't really have any opinion although I was debating about this with my wife I was like, you know, we're spending a lot of money to remodel a basement This is before the ceiling was in and I'm like wouldn't it be cheaper to survive all of our friends a A vr headset when they come over and we'll have a meta basement so So that's um I was like, you know, because no one cares then if it's just a meta basement We can just all live in our own special vr. No one cares what the real world actually looks like anymore We have that dystopian future to look forward to you, right? Uh status on the youtube security cam video Maybe another week. I don't know. I'm trying to decide. I want to get it done sooner than later But it's just timing. We have so many projects. We're doing right now with synologies We have synologies everywhere on the other side of this wall. We have projects going um One after another after another we have another uh brett just bid a 100 I don't I think it's like 97. So we'll round up to 100 Roughly a hundred cameras that we're going to be setting up on a synology system So uh, we have a lot of synology projects. We're doing and yes Oh, my wife says no Yeah, my wife my wife is saying no We will not build the meta basement. Well, I've already bought the ceiling and it's installed So we can't do meta basement now anyways. Well, you still could we could just not put anything else in the basement because you know Then we wouldn't have it My wife's happy though because we put up um We have artwork in our living room now. So We have another picture of it. Yeah We threw some pictures up on the wall She's happy about that Because this is our upstairs space and then this is how you get to the basement and my house is over here Oh, no, I've shared too much. I've showed people the inside of my house With my Ikea couch Uh You can build the largest vert you can you can put the coolest things in your basement if it's all virtual It doesn't take much to make my wife happy. It's the small things Yeah, the um I have and I don't know let me see is her Uh That is a pioneer elite system with some Clipsh speakers clipsh and then you can't see them because they're behind me from where I stand There's clip speakers behind me too. Uh, so all my speakers are clipsh with one exception This is actually a sir win vego over here. So the uh, the one Uh that my wife is uh decided and someone told my wife never to put potted plants on my speakers, but she did and uh The anyways Uh sir win vegas speakers to my subwoofer. So Everything else is uh clipsh. I really like their their products. So I talked about unify for the first 13 minutes of the podcast. You're gonna have to go backwards Uh, I have a 5.1 system to me. That's adequate Someone will go. Oh, no, you're not a real Uh home theater enthusiasts is only 5.1 which i'm fine with. Um, I I I'm happy with the way it sounds so I used to have a lot more stuff. I You like anything, uh You get into hobby for a while and you kind of slide out of them a little bit. So yeah Sir win vega does make some good subs man sir sir wins really good. I assume you mean cv, but yeah All right This is the end of the podcast because we're into the live show because I need to go uh, Finish the studio and I need to keep working at it until it's done And staring at that wall until I decided what goes on the wall because that's obviously a really hard part. So Yeah Uh, let's see You know, I'm gonna put a soundbar downstairs. The soundbars never sound quite as good as a real system Um, but you know, they I they've come a long way. So the soundbars are not They've gotten a lot better with some of the atmos and things like that. Um, So yeah, I I don't know. I'm kind of mixed on them I've always been When I used to be into like I had mcintosh amps and some really high-end stuff back in the day I was really more a snob on that and I shouldn't have been because that's not a nice thing to do But I was like, oh, you got to have this or got to have this really high-end stuff. But yeah There's the the They've come a long way with things like soundbars and stuff like that. I'm gonna say they do a lot better. So Oh, let's see Retro motorcycle. Yeah, I love my retro motorcycles. So From music get rune um, actually jay was talking about this on the our q&a session yesterday for the homelab show and uh, Volumeo, I think it is jay's got that set up on raspberry pies for part of his audio set up at home Jay likes music a lot. So he's got a pretty easy set up on there Arcade for a background. Yeah Yeah, soundbar. Well, that's because it is a bunch of small speakers trying to sound big So, all right, well, thank you everyone for joining. Thank you everyone for smashing out like button. It is greatly appreciated um I will comment on this. I will I will do a video. I switched from plex to uh, mb. I like mb a lot better um Mostly, I just like I think the ui is more intuitive Uh, those are hate and words leave your comments down below because I stopped the stream Uh, but I think mb makes a pretty good product in matter of fact We kept having problems with plex and we don't know why because we know it's not the system Plex would just stutter a lot playing on our tv But the same system running mb never does and it wouldn't just stutter it would stutter and then to stop streaming And we can't find an error message. We went through several updates I I don't know the only commonality is it did it on the synology, but it didn't do it on the true nast So we're like, okay, I I know it's something on a analogy, but I wanted to run plex on my synology I switched to running mb on a synology works fine same synology. So I I got I got nothing so No We are not uh tell tell tom we need a pinball machine. No do not Now if someone would like to 71 even then no, I don't want a pinball machine I got a big area in the basement. I don't need to fill it with a pinball machine so I I will now a standing arcade main machine running a like a whole retro cabinet. Oh, yeah, I'm in on that Um, I'm fine with that. I don't want a pinball machine. I'm fine with the standing arcade machine though You know like one of the retro pi ones Cc said yes, she's agreeing with me on uh things like that so fun Retro pi arcade that I'm in on I love I love retro games. So Retro games I'm all in Um I'm mixed on the pool table. They take up a lot of space. I don't I don't hate a pool table though Pool tables are okay Oh, I gotta my wife doesn't know I'm building a Pittsburgh toilet Now she knows she's in on the secret she's gonna complain when I get home She's gonna make me put walls around the toilet But there will be a there will be a time when there will be a toilet and there's no walls So for a beef period in my basement We'll put the toilet in before we put the walls up around it You're not I yes, I am Because that's the other um, let me find the right angle here That's the bathroom door, uh my office So this is where the bathroom is actually going to be is on the other side of my office that way I don't kind of go all the way upstairs to pee Ha ha ha So Oh, we got Bretton here. He knows the guy. Well, I Brett's probably coming over my house. We're gonna go put stuff up Well, thank you all for joining Thank you all for listening to Babylon about the other stuff for those of you here for the unify stuff I talked about that in the beginning so hit the rewind button and uh start from beginning the first 13 minutes Was me talking about unify Uh So, oh, yeah Dirt box. Yeah darts we have we have it on Um So Found out the udm prophecy is the same one game back playing. I just got my sepia shay and love it If you like it, I'm not a big fan of the whole, um Udm line. I got a whole video on that so I won't get into that topic. Thank you all for joining. See you next time